Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-09-07

lively pace, turned west and followed the
river some distance, destroying any fences
that were in his road, got into q field where
there were a number Of cattle, and after
chasing them around for while got on the
Grand Trunk railroad track and after q mr..
suit Of several miles by q number of men
and two other elephants was captured III
A Cincinnati, Ohio paper says that
Receiver Armstrong, who is in charge OF
the Fidelity National Bank, has prepared
petition to be filed against the late
directors of that bank, Eugene zimm erman,
Henry Pogue, w. II. Chatfeld and Briggs
Swift, for q sum aggregating between
- 100000 and $4,000, 600. They viii be
charged with having betrayed their. trusts
assdirectors and having become individually
liable for the losses of depositors. The
Directors Mathews, Gahr end Harper are
also defendants in the action. s@
Samuel Sparks, once wealthy man
of Indianapolis, Ind, ended his life with a
dose of poison on account of his loss of for
tune. His wife tried to keep his suicide
from becoming public, and after much diff
hculty procured burial permit without
giving the cause Of death. The coroner
learned OF the matter in time to stop the
ceremonies at the grave, and with the
mourning relatives and friends surrounding
him he conducted an inquest after which
they assisted in the last sad rites.
Bradstreet's says that special tele-
grams from leading points of distribution
throughout the country record considerable
improvement in the volume of staple mer-
chandlse moving as compared with week
ago. There are fewer complaints OF re-
of fhh. into m
damage by the drouth, and Chicago, st.
Louis, Kansas City, st. Joseph, st. Paul
and Minneapolis, which supply the great
grain belt, report the best trade known for
menths
At Morgan, Texas, and vicinity
heavy rains have fallen and the damage il
estimated at thousands OF dollars. Both
the Texas Central and the Gulf, Colorado
q Sante Fe railways are badly damaged,
and trains will be cut off for many days.
Four business honses and nine residences
there have been washed away. At W hitney
and Meriden many houses were washed
away. man was drowned at Meriden.
The loss to the railroad is 100000.
At the City of Mexico, on the goth, a
brisk earthquake shock was experienced
about7 o'clock a. M, agitating houses and
making the people dizzy. The shock was
not severe and was most felt in the outlying
secretary of the United States legation,
noted the shock at 6 AS O'Clock and about
the same time it was felt sharply at Castle
Chapultepec, where President Diaz and his
family are residing.
A large party of colored people from
Atlanta, Ca, visited Decatur Sunday for a
celebration. After drinking freely some of
them became disorderly and were arrested.
in a riot with the marshal and his posse, in
the course of which the marshal aud one of
his aids was killed and one negro killed
and good many injured.
''Blinky'' Morgan, the burglar who
is now in jail at Ravenna, O., for murder
ing Detective Hullgan, and who, while
being captured at Alpena, Mich, q short
time since, fatally shot Sheriff Lynch, has
the postoffice and a iewelry store at Hart
Oceana county, Mich.
AtChicago, John Streuvy, a barber shot
his wife four times, inflicting fatal wounds
He had just returned from Europe, and,
it is alleged, found that she had been living
with another man during his absence. The
murderer was arrested while trying to
crack jokes with bystanders regarding his
crime.
The first convictions in the Bald
Knobber trials have been secured at
Ozark, John Hills and Matt Shipman being
found guilty of whipping Clayton Whit
and costs. Five or six others plead guilty
to whipping Green Walker.
Judge Reeves. of Bloomington, Ill.,,
has admitted to bail in the sum of $1,000
Timothy Coughlin, the section foreman of
the Toledo, Peoria &Western, who was held
responsible forthe smash-up at Chatsworth,
by which nearly 100 lives we're lost.
Unprecedented rains have fallen
throughout North Texas. All the rivers are
over their banks, and many washouts are
reported. Eleven persons have been
drowned at Cleburne, seven of whom be-
longed to a family named Schmidt.
The Anchor Manufacturing COM
pany's cooperage establishment covering 20
acres of ground on the Detroit river burned
Monday morning. Loss 100000, insurance
thrown out Of employment
Mrs. Nancy jackson Farwell, the
venerable mother of United State Senator
Charles B. Farwell and John V. Farwell,
died at Sterling, Ill.,, at the age of 80 years
She was born Jan II, 1897 and was ma
tive Of New York State.
The banks of the Galena, Ills, river
for considerable distance are lined with
dead fish of all sizes and varities, from
which. a sickening stencil emanates. Vari-
GUS theories are advanced in explanation of
the phenomenon.
Rodney D. Wells, proprietor Of the
oldest queensware and glass house in st.
Louis, has made an assignment to F. A.
Windt. The assets consist of stock valued
at $4,000. The liabilities are not stated.
Mary Frahm, a young woman, died
in Niles, Mich, from the effects of a clubbing
administered by her stepfather, Charles
Huff, some days ago, while in liquor. Huff
has been arrested.
The bridge works of Morse Bros, at
youngstown, Ohio, employing 800 men were
burned Sunday, all the machinery, tools
and stock being destroyed. Loss 800, 900,
insurance $4,000. =. ~ ~ : p -
One hundred Knights of Labor struck
at Cleveland, Ohio, at the factory OF the
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